In all browsers this will alert the username that the user enters however now in IE10 "Metro" this method is technically defined however it will never show the prompt and will return undefined.

We find it humorous that after supporting the method badly for over a decade Microsoft chose to drop the method completely rather than fix the bugs bug 109, bug 139!

When Microsoft was questioned about this change on MSDN and the IE Blog Microsoft chose not to comment. In fact Microsoft has been pretty quiet in general since committing to the final RTM builds of Windows 8 (and thus IE10) not responding to any of the direct questions from developers. Read into that what you will, but we find it very unsettling... lack of communication is never a good thing.

Recent Updates

Feb. 7,2009 - Added a new Tag called Broken By Design. It is applied to all reported bugs that the browser vendor has indicated that they have no intention of fixing this bug any time soon and is therefore broken "By Design".

Feb. 7,2009 - Updated as many bug reports as possible for Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) to reflect the status of IE8 RC1 since according to the IE Blog the RTM release is coming soon. If you want to know, click to see what has been fixed?